Doodlebug

Doodlebug is a black and white short film which was directed by Christopher Nolan in 1997. Doodlebug is his third short film after Tarantella (1989) and Larceny (1996). This short film actually reminded me of Citizen Kane, or at least the bit with all the mirrors. It is also a bit like the Seuss book Horton Hears a Who as it involves much smaller things being endangered by much larger things.

The perspective of this is from what appears to me a regular man, and then there is the smaller man he squishes and the larger man that squishes him. So the audience can never really be sure of where they are in the placement of the scale in terms of size, because the audience is made to think the first man is the human-sized one, but the other two look exactly like him so one cannot be sure.

This short film in that regard it like colonization, the countries that think they are so much larger and better than the others go and squish the littler countries – but empires never last. Which goes back to the size of the character, empires start out small, and then get much larger, but then one tiny thing can drive the whole of the empire apart again. They just get replaced by new powers it is a cycle that is also like the cycle of life, people start out small get bigger and think they can do whatever they want but there is always someone bigger and better than can come along and derail / squish you. As such this is also about karma and Buddhism, as when you harm something that harm will come back to you later on as the life value of all things is considered equal.